He slammed his fist on the table, the impact jarring his entire arm. The table wobbled, threatened to spill the coffee cup. He grabbed the phone. His face was flushed. The screen seemed to flicker. He struggled to catch his breath. His breathing was rapid. He wanted to do something, anything, to change the awful reality. He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. He picked up his phone, but couldn't bring himself to dial. He threw it back down. He spun around, started pacing, unable to remain still. He was trapped.

Emotion: panicked

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.44 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion panicked. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 panicked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the panicked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the panicked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.317
😫0.294
😖0.285
😰0.285
escape0.283
Suppressed:
la-0.432
a-0.374
de-0.296
楽し-0.262
happy-0.258